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1. 1.13.52 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/24/1927 to Anne Bellangee Call from Mary White, with a copy to E. B. Gaston. White is complaining about what she considers inconsistancies in Fairhope Single Tax Corporation policy with regard to acquisition of leased lands. She wants to lease a track of land which the Corporation considers parkland and she considers this unfair. She says Mr. Cummings was allowed to get the "cream" of the land and she was not. From the corr...

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2. 1.14.49 - Letter

   Undated letter to J. H. Webb, attorney from the Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation asking him for his interpretation on various areas of their constitution. 1. Should the constitution be an instrument to define the powers that SHALL be exercised by the corporations officers or to define the powers that SHALL NOT be exercised, leaving the officers free to do anything not expressly forbidden? 2.Could the officers of theFairhope Sing...

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3. 1.14.50-51 - Letter

   Undated draft of a letter written to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Trustees. This letter is in reference to an action taken by three of the Executive Council to remove trees and shrubs in order to use the beach for a ball park (see 1.14.47-48). The Trustees are proposing a rule requiring the membership to have cognisance of the intention of the Council in regard to any change in the physical property of the...

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4. 1.14.54-55 - Resolution

   Resolution to transfer the public parks along Marshall and Stack's gullys owned by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope with reservations which will assure that they will always be used for park purposes only and that the members have an opportunity to express theri wishes with regard to such action by referendum.

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5. 1.14.74 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/15/1930 to Anne Bellangee Call from A. E. Shalkenbach in Chicago, Illinois (where he living temporarily caring for his sick mother). Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and are continuing their discussion about whether the FSTC should giving Corporation owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Shalkenbach's opinion is that no transfer should take place for two reasons. First, he thinks the Town of Fairhope...

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6. 1.14.75 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/21/1930 to A. E. Schalkenbach in Chicago, Illinois from Anne Bellagee Call in Fairhope. Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and Call is continuing her correspondence while Schalkenbach is away from Fairhope tending his sick morther. The issue is the proposal to transfer the parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. She is urging Schalkenbach to consult with single tax l...

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7. 1.14.76 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/28/1930 to Anne Bellangee Call from A. E. Schalkenbach writing from Chicago, Illinois, where he is tending his sick mother. Both are Trustess of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and are corresponding about the issue of possibilty transferring the FSTC-owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Call has asked Schalkenbach to consult with single tax lawyers in Chicago (a prominent hub of the single tax movement) about whether...

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8. 1.15.101-102 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Mrs. Robinson from Anne Bellangee Call discussing the matters of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The FSTC "passed a resolution to deed the parks to the town" the previous evening without a vote of the members and without an amendment to the constitution allowing such. Call fears the worst - that this starts movement towards dissolution of the Colony. Futher she believes the current mayor of Fairhope is actively ...

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9. 1.15.104-106 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/22/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call from William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago who is writing an opinion on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation can transfer their parklands to the Town of Fairhope without an amendment to the constitution or a general referedum. Call is a Trustee of the FSTC and has asked Holly for his opinion on the matter. Holly writes that the trustees and Executive Council are prohibited from selling FS...

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10. 1.15.108-111 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Anne B. Call, a Trustee in the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Call has asked several lawyers, including Johnston to give their opinions on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation can transfer their parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the FSTC membership or an amendment to the constituttion. Johnston's opinion is that one of the t...

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11. 1.15.112-113 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/6/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call, a trustee for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Johnston is further clarifying his previous letter in which he gives his opinion that the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation cannot transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the membership or an amendment to the constitution. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Cal...

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12. 1.15.119-120 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/28/1931 to William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois, from Anne Bellange Call, a trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Holly has, at Call's request, written an opinion stating that to transfer parklands from the FSTC to the Town of Fairhope, either a referendum of the membership or an amendemnt to the constitution is required. The FSTC lawyer, J. H. Webb, has issued an opinion to the contrary, and the motion to...

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13. 1.15.31 - Letter

    Letter to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Board of Trustees for the year 1930 (Albert E. Schalkenbach, Anne Bellangee Call and Delia K. Bancroft) discussing the proposal to deed the park lands to the Town of Fairhope. Petitioners to the proposed Constitutional Amendment to be voted on 5/12/1931 believe there are no powers in the present Constitution granting the right to give away any of the properties of the Corporati...

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14. 1.15.33-34 - Letter

    Statement of Anne B. Call outlining four reasons why she believes the park lands of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation should remain the property of the Corporation rather than deeded to the Town of Fairhope. She cites sections of the Constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to support her opinions.

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15. 1.15.35-38 - Letter

    Letter written to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call explaining why she is opposed to deeding the park lands to the Town of Fairhope.

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16. 1.15.43-48 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/26/1931 to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Trustees ( A. E. Schalkenbach, Anne B. Call and Delia Knowles Bancroft) criticizing the Executive Council on a number of issues. They feel that there has not been strict adherence to the Constitution of the Corporation, that the method employed of appraising the annual rental value was inconsistent with the method prescribed in the Constitution, they feel that...

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17. 1.15.78-80 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/25/1931 to Anne B. Call from A. E. Schalkenbach enclosing a draft letter to the Mayor of Fairhope which he asks her to type and send for his signature. The letter to the Mayor deals with the transfer of parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. Schalkenbach is writing the Mayor to notify him that, in his opinion, without a change to the FSTC contstitution, such transfer of Colony property is ille...

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18. 1.15.85 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/13/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne Belllangee Call on the topic of the transfer of the parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. Call is a FSTC Trustee and reports that the motion to consider an amendment to the FSTC constitution to allow transfer of Colony-owned property to other entities failed at the previous night's Council meeting. Call wants Schalkenbach, who is a former FSTC Trustee ...

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19. 1.15.87-88 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/14/1931 to William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois, from Anne Bellangee Call requesting his opinion on whether an amendment to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation constitution is required before the FSTC can transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.

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20. 1.15.89 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/22/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call from William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois. Call has asked Holly to write an opinion on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation constitution should be amended before FSTC-owned parklands are transfered to the Town of Fairhope.

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